When Children Kill Children

Penal Populism and Political Culture

David A. Green

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English

Oxford University Press
01 February 2008

True crime; Police & security services; Rehabilitation of offenders; Juvenile offenders; Criminal or forensic psychology; Criminal law & procedure; Case law

Series: Clarendon Studies in Criminology

This title examines the role of political culture and penal populism in the response to the emotive subject of child-on-child homicide.

Green explores the reasons underlying the vastly differing responses of the English and Norwegian criminal justice systems to the cases of James Bulger and Silje Redergard respectively. Whereas James Bulger's killers were subject to extreme press and public hostility, and held in secure detention for nine months before being tried in an adversarial court, and served eight years in custody,

a Redergard's killers were shielded from public antagonism and carefully reintegrated into the local community. This book argues that English adversarial political culture creates far more incentives to politicize high-profile crimes than Norwegian consensus political culture. Drawing on a wealth of empirical research, Green suggests that the tendency for politicians to justify punitive responses to crime by invoking harsh political attitudes is based upon a flawed understanding of public opinion.

In a compelling study, Green proposes a more deliberative response to crime is possible by making English culture less adversarial and by making informed public judgment more assessable.

By: David A. Green
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 224mm, Width: 146mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 558g
ISBN: 9780199230969
ISBN 10: 019923096X
Series: Clarendon Studies in Criminology
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 01 February 2008
Audience: College/higher education , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dr David A. Green is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. He completed an MPhil in Criminology at the University of Cambridge Institute of Criminology in 2001 and was then awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship to pursue a PhD. Afterwards he was a Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford and Research Associate at the University of Oxford Centre for Criminology.

Reviews for When Children Kill Children: Penal Populism and Political Culture

Covers all bases * David Wilson, Professor of Criminology, Centre of Applied Criminology, Birmingham City University, The Howard Journal, May 2010 * a most valuable and informative work which provides new insights and ways forward in the face of the destructive potentialities of penal populism. * Dennis Eady, Criminology and Criminal Justice * this important, stimulating book has the potential to become a landmark contribution to the development of comparative penology. * John Pratt, Punishment & Society * a most valuable and informative work which provides new insights and ways forward in the face of the destructive potentialities of penal populism. * Dennis Eady, Criminology and Criminal Justice *